Shepherd

WESTMINSTER — The past school year may have just ended, but the nonprofit Shepherd's Staff in Westminster is already collecting for its back-to-school outreach program, and is seeking donations of school essentials for Carroll County students in need. School supplies, new backpacks, monetary donations to purchase new shoes, new and nearly new school clothing and new or used books are being accepted through Aug. 15. Donations can be dropped off at The Shepherd's Staff, 30 Carroll St., Westminster.

Helen D. Shepherd, a registered nurse and homemaker, died in her sleep Friday at the Charlestown retirement community. She was 93. Helen Deputy was born on a family farm near Chestertown and later moved with her family to what is now Charles Village. After graduating from Eastern High School, Mrs. Shepherd earned her nursing degree from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing. While working at the old Hospital for the Women of Maryland on Bolton Hill, Mrs. Shepherd met her future husband, Robert Gordon Shepherd Sr., whom she married in 1938.

On October 16, 2009, Richard A. Byrne Jr. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, Joppa, MD at 2 P.M. Friends may call at the church prior to the service, from 1 to 2 P.M. Interment will be in Rest Haven Memorial Gardens, Blue Ash, OH. Those who desire may contribute to the American Heart Association, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058 or Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 457, Joppa,...

On April 17, 2009, ANNE HARRISON WALKER. A well known antique dealer, tennis and golf enthusiast. Loving wife of M. Cooper Walker and mother of Martha Walker Rinker. Memorial service to celebrate the life of Anne Harrison Walker, Monday, October 26, 2009 at 5 P.M. at the Church of Good Shepherd on Boyce Ave. in Ruxton.

Trailing 21-20 with 7:31 left in the game, Michael Gagne capped a seven-play, 39-yard drive with a 42-yard field goal to lift host Bowie State over Shepherd, 23-21, on Saturday. James Proctor returned the opening kickoff 98 yards and the Bulldogs (1-1) took a 7-0 lead with 14:45 left in the first quarter. A Rams' safety at 11:02 and touchdown drive with less than two minutes in the quarter put Shepherd (1-1) ahead, 9-7. Second-quarter touchdown runs by Andre Johnson and Rodney Webb gave Bowie a 20-9 lead at the half.

WNBA McCarville leads Liberty to 60-59 victory over Mystics Janel McCarville scored 19 points, including the victory-clinching three point play with 9.1 seconds remaining, in the New York Liberty's 60-59 win over the Washington Mystics on Sunday. Shameka Christon scored 14 points for the Liberty (9-15), who lost their two previous meetings with the Mystics this season. Alana Beard scored 11 of her 18 points in the fourth quarter, including a layup with 23.3 seconds left to put the Mystics (12-12)

Sister Mary Rosaria Baxter, former provincial leader of the Sisters of Good Shepherd Province of Mid-North America, died of kidney cancer July 23 at St. Vincent Care Center in Emmitsburg. She was 68. She was born Maureen Baxter in New York City, and was raised there and in Phoenix, Ariz., and Charlotte, N.C., where she graduated from Charlotte Catholic High School. She entered the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, then located in their motherhouse at Mount and Hollins streets in Southwest Baltimore, in 1961.

Eastern High School's pink marble likeness of a good shepherd, which spent two decades at another campus, has returned to its original home in Waverly. The Eastern High Alumni Association donated $20,000 to have the statue disassembled and moved this spring from the merged Lake Clifton-Eastern High School, where it had spent the last 22 years. "This statue was the site of the first kiss and the first cigarette for a lot of us," recalled Peg McAllen, a 1944 graduate of Eastern. The piece, formally known as the Lizette Woodworth Reese Memorial - also called the Good Shepherd Statue - will be rededicated at a public ceremony Monday at what is now the Johns Hopkins at Eastern campus.

On Palm Sunday morning, the Rev. Jim Hannon awoke at 5:30, prayed and then exercised on a treadmill for 20 minutes. By 7:30, the priest was set for a day of ministry in Western Maryland. That's when the real workout began. The 55-year-old Hannon pastors six churches in Allegany and Garrett counties, the result of a priest shortage that the Archdiocese of Baltimore faces in Maryland's westernmost jurisdictions. The number of priests in the region, on the decline for years, has dwindled further since 2004, from 14 to 10. As Catholic churches throughout the world celebrate Holy Week, the sacred - and busy - period on the Christian liturgical calendar, Hannon's road-warrior routine has become even more frenetic.